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davsand

(13,446 posts)
22. Not my bad teacher, but my daughter's...
Tue Feb 19, 2013, 12:16 PM
Feb 2013

Her 6th grade English teacher was a real POS. That awful woman actually told my daughter--in class, and during the discussion,"You have to stop using big words. Nobody understands you. You need to speak English." My comment (one of them anyway...) was the teacher was an ignorant f***ing cow that needed to be forcibly retired. The Principal was not amused, however, I was less than enthusiastic about anybody telling my daughter to "dumb it down."

Have I mentioned that my daughter received the President's Award for Educational Excellence her 8th Grade year? She's now in high school, and is still an honor student in advanced academic classes as well as being an active Thespian and JV Captain of the Academic Bowl team.

WTF kind of teacher would ever dream of saying that to any kid?





Laura

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